Rookie Michael Lorenzo-Vera shot a 2-under 70 Friday to lead by one stroke after the second round at the Irish Open.
The 23-year-old Frenchman, who won last year's European Challenge Tour, was at 6-under 138.
Marcel Siem of Germany shot a 71 at Adare Manor for second place.
Overnight co-leader Richard Green of Australia bogeyed the last hole for a 74, but was tied for third with Pablo Larrazabal of Spain (70).
The Republican presidential candidate is seeking to bolster his appeal to voters on economic issues by speaking to some of those hardest hit in the recent downturn: auto workers.
AFP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged hundreds of thousands of young Catholics to beat back a "spiritual desert" spreading through the modern world as he closed Catholic World Youth Day in Australia.
Reuters - Tens of thousands of people filled
Nicaragua's capital on Saturday to celebrate the country's 1979
leftist revolution, giving a lift to President Daniel Ortega as
his government faces simmering protests.
